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Poor iPhone users. You need some type of power source to keep you going. With my S4, I can just pop in a backup battery and keep on going.
The Cornerplay: Soon no one will care about a phone's battery life
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Some breakthrough advancements have been made in the battery tech which are supposedly going to offer quicker charge, higher storage and long lasting release. My hope to see longer battery life is more attached with this new tech, though none the less what is mentioned in this article will contribute if not half but at least 20-30% towards the extended battery life we would hopefully see in the future.
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I agree. We need better battery tech. At least for smartphones. Features phones have and have had incredible battery life
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If you want your battery to last all day. Get help. Join a 12 step program. Like Phone Anonymous! addicts!
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Make sure someone saves this article, so in 20 years time we can look back and laugh that we were happy to get a full day of battery life. Me, I look forward to getting a week without having to charge my phone.
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Can you test how long it takes to charge a phone from dead to full.
*Please use the same charging rock to compare
*Please use the same charging rock to compare
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I call BS on this. It may be the authors view and I agree to a certain extent newer hardware and software does make a bit of a difference but saying that soon no one will care about their phones battery life I think is utter crap, I don't buy it for a second. Battery tech still needs to improve vastly and despite stories coming out daily about the next big thing in battery tech, it hasn't happened yet (at least not on a commercial scale) and newer and better hardware components and software will only make a slight difference.
Saying true all day battery life is is around the corner is nothing to brag about, getting it to last for a week or more on a single charge, that's something to crow about and it's never going to happen with current battery tech.
The bottom line is the battery will always be the weakest link in mobile devices and will remain so for a good while yet.
Saying true all day battery life is is around the corner is nothing to brag about, getting it to last for a week or more on a single charge, that's something to crow about and it's never going to happen with current battery tech.
The bottom line is the battery will always be the weakest link in mobile devices and will remain so for a good while yet.
"Using Wi-Fi drains battery life, so I just rely on 3G."
*facepalm* 3G is a great deal more power hungry than WiFi
That aside. love the upcoming android improvements. The only thing that worries me though is the industry's bizarre obsession with making the thinnest phones imaginable, any power saving improvements are usually used to cut the battery to the smallest size they can get away with.
Whilst increasing screen sizing gives more width for batteries, thinness overides everything else. They could easily make phones with batteries than last a full day minimum right now, but for some reason making a phone even 1mm thicker is an unthinkable thing to most phone companies :/
As a heavy user of smartphones, I have to take things into my own hands and look for models with replaceable batteries, then buy oversized third-party XL batteries for them.
I currently have a Galaxy S3, with a 4600mAh XL battery instead of the 2100mAh battery it came with. The phone needed 3000mAh absolute minimum in my opinion...
*facepalm* 3G is a great deal more power hungry than WiFi
That aside. love the upcoming android improvements. The only thing that worries me though is the industry's bizarre obsession with making the thinnest phones imaginable, any power saving improvements are usually used to cut the battery to the smallest size they can get away with.
Whilst increasing screen sizing gives more width for batteries, thinness overides everything else. They could easily make phones with batteries than last a full day minimum right now, but for some reason making a phone even 1mm thicker is an unthinkable thing to most phone companies :/
As a heavy user of smartphones, I have to take things into my own hands and look for models with replaceable batteries, then buy oversized third-party XL batteries for them.
I currently have a Galaxy S3, with a 4600mAh XL battery instead of the 2100mAh battery it came with. The phone needed 3000mAh absolute minimum in my opinion...
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No mention of Windows Phone by author. Huge mistake!
Best example of software making a difference in battery life: the new HTC One M8 for Windows gets dramatically better battery life than its Android counterpart using the exact same hardware.
Also, several users have reported getting well into 2 days of life out of their Lumia 1520s running the just released WP update. These phones have 6" screens and 3200 mAh batteries.
Best example of software making a difference in battery life: the new HTC One M8 for Windows gets dramatically better battery life than its Android counterpart using the exact same hardware.
Also, several users have reported getting well into 2 days of life out of their Lumia 1520s running the just released WP update. These phones have 6" screens and 3200 mAh batteries.
We are far far off from don't caring about battery life. Until we hit a minimum of a week of life for average use on a phone it's going to be an major issue. As we demand more and more of our phones it's going to be an issue. The fact is portable power is awesome. Once we hit a year + battery life without charging, then I think you can safely put this to rest until then. But we are far off from that happening.
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I still remember the good old days when I was charging my cellphone once or twice a week..... But of course, back then my phone was less intelligent than me.
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"All day battery"? Hah! My dumbphone's battery lasts for up to 14 days. The future is already here.
You are totally Right
This all sounds good in theory but we'll have to see what really happens. Also even if we get much better battery life there still be the issue of batteries not lasting (meaning every few months the battery live gets less and less until you're basically keeping your phone plugged in to keep connected).
Better battery technology is needed, and that's it but battery manufacturers and cell phone companies will just bring out these band aids in hope to satisfy us.
Better battery technology is needed, and that's it but battery manufacturers and cell phone companies will just bring out these band aids in hope to satisfy us.
It's 2017 and I still care about battery life
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